Soros Buys Himself an “Independent” Fact Check Organisation – Can You Guess, Why?


Investment Watch Blog
July 6, 2017
Mark Angelides

This almost cartoon-like Super Villain, George Soros, has just “donated” half a million dollars to Full Fact, a fact-checking charity in the UK. As to why he has done this, is anyone’s guess… kind heart, seeker of truth… or is it perhaps set to be just another arm of his personal propaganda army?

Full Fact is a UK charity, which means, it receives not only a tax-exempt status, but is on the receiving end of government money (taxpayer money). A quick perusal of their website will tell you pretty much all, you need to know about their politics and some may argue, that perhaps this is, because the “facts” support the Left's position on the important issues of the day (I use the term Left only in the British Parliamentary meaning). But do they really? Or is each “study” setting out to find the answers (and only the answers), that support that side of the argument?

Let’s try an experiment! If I were to ask you, what major organizations would likely sponsor such a site for the purposes of promoting globalism (here I use the term as a broad church: as commenter “Stop Bush and Clinton’ pointed out on a previous article, there are many names for this movement, that are purposely obfuscated), which would you suggest? I tried this experiment on a range of colleagues (mostly Americans) and they came up with almost the exact list:

  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Twitter
  • Soros’s Open Society
  • British government
  • European government (EU)
  • Omidyar Network (eBay founder)

And many others. You can check out their 2016 donation list here. In case they take it down over time, here is that 2016 Full Fact donors' list as of 8-24-2017:

     Charitable Trusts

  • Nuffield Foundation
  • Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust
  • Esmée Fairbairn Foundation
  • Barrow Cadbury Trust
  • The Legal Education Foundation
  • Peter Samuel Charitable Trust
  • Laura Kinsella Foundation
  • M J Samuel Charitable Trust
  • Ad Lib Foundation
  • Omidyar Network
  • Open Society Foundations

     Corporate Supporters

  • City of London Corporation
  • Community, the trade union
  • Diageo
  • Kings & Wood Mallesons
  • Monckton Chambers
  • St James’s Place Wealth Management
  • Rolls Royce

I don’t care, that they have a paid-for propaganda arm. The politics, I follow, also does (as does almost every political position on the spectrum). But I do care, that the media and government elites will use these supposed “facts” to try and make real people look foolish and ignorant. They will use them to attack people, who express an opinion (that may in fact be right) and show, that this wonderful “independent” fact-checking organization shows them to be not only wrong, but most probably racist and/or Nazi.

We all use spin and opinion to get our points across (as I gave done here) and we all cherry-pick facts, that best frame our arguments. There’s nothing wrong with that, it’s human. But this is using the people’s own tax money, that they would rather, be spent on public services, to fund their own indoctrination. And THAT is wrong!